I can't believe either of those words qualify as "obscure", though.
Tom Send a noteboard - 05/12/2012 11:20:20 PM
It's not like saying "tergiversation" or "yelve" or "mingent".
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Obscure word from Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolf
- 04/12/2012 07:07:32 PM
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Vivisection?
- 05/12/2012 03:30:33 PM
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There's also biopsy
- 05/12/2012 10:28:54 PM
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I can't believe either of those words qualify as "obscure", though.
- 05/12/2012 11:20:20 PM
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Considering "average" vocabulary...
- 05/12/2012 11:25:13 PM
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Ultrasound is what you call something that sounds super cool, right?
- 06/12/2012 12:51:40 AM
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Somehow I doubt many people with average vocabularies make it past chapter one though 
- 10/12/2012 01:16:27 PM
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- 10/12/2012 01:16:27 PM
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I was looking through lists of obscure Wolfe words online, and I couldn't find anything.
- 06/12/2012 12:18:14 AM
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If it's not vivisection maybe you can find the word off the Wolfewiki?
- 10/12/2012 01:24:11 PM
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